Career
He Is widely considered the greatest freestyle wrestler of all time. In 1992, Buvaisar left his hometown of Khasavyurt, Dagestan in order to train at a prestigious wrestling center in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Soon after graduating from the training center, Saitiev began his quest to represent Russia on the world stage.
Buvaisar"s life philosophy has been heavily influenced by Nobel Prize-winning poet Boris Pasternak.
Saitiev repeats the following poem before every match, and according to Buvaisar, the poem has defined his life both inside and outside of wrestling:
lieutenant is not seemly to be famous
Celebrity does not exalt;
There is no need to hoard your writings
And to preserve them in a vault. To give your all - this is creation,
And not - to deafen and eclipse.
How shameful, when you have no meaning,
To be on everybody"s lips! Try not to live as a pretender,
But so to manage your affairs
That you are loved by wide expanses,
And hear the call of future years. Leave blanks in life, not in your papers,
And do not ever hesitate
To pencil out whole chunks, whole chapters
Of your existence, of your fate.
Into obscurity retiring
Try your development to hide,
As autumn mist on early mornings
Another, step by step, will follow
The living imprint of your feet;
But you yourself must not distinguish
Your victory from your defeat.
And never for a single moment
Betray your credo or pretend,
But be alive-this only matters-
Alive and burning to the education Быть знаменитым некрасиво. Не это подымает ввысь.
Не надо заводить архива,
Над рукописями трястись.
Цель творчества самоотдача,
А не шумиха, не успех. Позорно ничего не знача,
Быть притчей на устах у всех.
His senior-level international career began in 1994 and, to date, has continued on through the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. In 1999, Buvaisar did not wrestle at the world championships.
Saitiev also did not compete at the world championships in 2002.
He lost to Magomed Isagadjiev at the 2002 Russian Nationals. According to media reports, Saitiev"s training in 2007 was hampered by a neck injury.